ABC News director Justin Stevens says comments made by political journalist Laura Tingle at Sydney Writers' Festival did not meet the organisation's editorial standards.
Tingle wasn’t talking about that in her original remarks. The bit about The Australian’s considerable coverage on supposed anti-semitism was just meant to illustrate the Murdoch papers’ rank hypocrisy in their beat-up around her remarks.
If it’s racist to oppose genocide then I guess we’re all god damn racists
Tingle wasn’t talking about that in her original remarks. The bit about The Australian’s considerable coverage on supposed anti-semitism was just meant to illustrate the Murdoch papers’ rank hypocrisy in their beat-up around her remarks.
She was referring to Dutton’s anti-migration policies, not genocide: